Metro preps to use data to remove low-performing educators

5:08 AM,
Jul. 24, 2013

Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools Dr. Jesse Register

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

As many as 63 Metro teachers could be fired this fall under a new policy orchestrated by Director of Schools Jesse Register to dismiss teachers with chronically low-performing state evaluation scores.

At Tuesday's school board meeting, Metro school officials said 195 out of some 6,000 Nashville teachers received a score of 1 out of a high of 5 on state-mandated evaluations during the 2011-12 school year, but only 63 of these teachers remain employed today.

For the first time since Tennessee adopted a controversial teacher evaluation system two years ago, Register is preparing to use its ...